About The Legend Of Zelda
Shigeru Miyamoto - The genius behind such creations as Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda.
Link - The Hero of Time from The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is an epic fantasy high action packed adventure series of games that was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka while being developed and published by the almighty Nintendo. To generally describe the gameplay would combine action-adventure, solving puzzles, some role playing elements like in The Adventure of Link, with sneaking around The Gerudos in The Ocarina of Time, platforming making leaps once the element of 3D came in this became more of a task, shooting in the galleries with the fairy bow and slingshot, and racing challenges such as in Majora's Mask once assuming the role of a Goron to gain the gold dust. The main Hero in the series of games is Link you play as this character, generally the games are set around a fantasy world called Hyrule with the princess Zelda being kidnapped by the Evil Gannon striving for The Triforce. The game is then set up for you as the Hero Link to set out your adventure with countless hours of amazing gameplay ahead!
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The Legend of Zelda Series
The Legend of Zelda game series has sold many millions of copies worldwide since the original release of the first game on the NES back in 1987 which continues to sell successfully. There have been about fourteen official games on Nintendo systems along with several spin offs such as Links Crossbow Training. In the late Eighties along with other Nintendo based cartoons such as Mario and Captain N, which features characters popular at the time, Zelda was no exception and had its own animated series running for a length of 13 episodes and if you had chance to watch it as I did back then you would understand the reason. There are books that are produced by Manga under authorization from Nintendo that follow the latest quests since the Ocarina of Time, these are available through auction sites such as Ebay and Amazon to the UK.
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How The Legend of Zelda Began
The Legend of Zelda was initially an inspiration dreamt up by Shigeru Miyamoto. Once as a young boy he took it upon himself to venture into the secluded lakes, forests and woodland in his childhood town of Kyoto. Amongst one of his adventures a most memorable experience was enchanted upon when he discovered a cave in the middle of the woods he entered the cave with a lantern. This idea takes form for the original concept of discovering secrets and using items to aid forth in a quest. The name Zelda derives from F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife called Zelda Mr Miyamoto liked the name and used it for The Legend of Zelda.